An open carry observation

[Clayguy]

Not trying to derail this thread, but the VA's restrictive gun policy was mentioned. For several years I took my father to a VA hospital for appointments. I am curious to see if I'm the only one who has a problem with any entity - government or otherwise - telling me that I can't have a weapon secured in my vehicle while parked in their parking lot. Given that our drive from my dad's residence to the VA was about 140 miles, compliance with that rule resulted in disarming me for the entire trip. Not logical or acceptable to me. In fact, I remember reading several years ago about a lawsuit brought by a group of employees against their employer who had a similar policy - no guns in the buildings or parking lot. My recollection is that the courts ruled in the employees' favor, saying that you can restrict guns in the building, but you can't disarm your employees on their trip to work.
Please understand that it's not my intention to slam the VA. They were good to my dad and it was appreciated. And if they want to restrict guns in the building I get it even if I don't particularly like it. I can imagine that someone might say, "just park off the premises". Toward the end of my father's life he wasn't able to walk any great distance so that really wasn't an option.
Anybody else find that VA policy - telling you that you can't have a gun in your vehicle - to be taking things a bit far?

I go to the VA hospital several times a year and they have signs prohibiting firearms in the building, but have never herd of any restriction in a vehicle parked in the parking are. I wonder if the rules vary according to location?

 

[Doriangray6]

More like gimpy old guy with a gun showing? WooHoo! FREE GUN!

I see the aggressively negative comments of yourself and other self appointed "experts" on how a person chooses to carry a firearm as indicative of a growing herd mentality in the US. Not just in this matter but in all aspects of our society.
Where anybody that doesn't join and follow the herd isn't just regarded as an individual who happens to think, act, or live different but as someone to be attacked, vilified, condemned, and even feared.
It's a sad development in a country where individualism, personal choice, and thinking outside the box were once regarded as good things and the basis of many of the great ideas and developments that originated in the US.
Historically the decline of these qualities and their replacement by a herd mentality have always been indications of a country's social and intellectual decline and stagnation.